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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
THE ART OF ETCHING.
It, sudden Popularity and the Increased
Value of Prints.
Philadelphia Press

value OF frlotss
Philadelphia Press
The sudden popularity of etchings, the
flood OF them in the market and the ex-
cellence of the best examples are
healthy signs of the progress of art educa-
ton. The vogue they have obtained is
almost without parallel. 1t is only about
eight years ago that Mr.. Hammerton wrote
with exultation to tellall whom it might
concern that etchers were no longer a
neglected body, and hat one of his friends,
clever artist, had just sold a plate for
fifty guineas. That was in 1878, and now
in 1887 Mr.. Macbeth has just sold a plate
for thousand guineas, and well-known
French etcher has contracted 70 produce
one for two thousand. Such prices are
sensations in the art world; but the in
huence of them is healthy. They are not
explained by the vagaries OF the auction
mart or by the competition of emulous
and excited collectors. They are based on
the slow but steady progress OF art educa-
ton, on the gradual substitution of the
public for the patron. Art-said a great
French painter to class of too hopeful
students collected in his ateller-art is not
not difficult; what is difficult is to sell it.
1t Is curious to trace both the sudden
ness of the rise in price and the influence
which America has had in stimulating and
Abs n Wc4A-AuOMu III
New York often tells the story how, not
very long ago, he had made a collection
which included some etchings OF the
French painter Daubigny. He was partic-
ularly anxious to get some more examples,
and, having business in Europe, thought
the simplest way would be 70 go direct to
the artist. He had some difficulty in find
ing him, but ultimately came upon his
studio on the seventh story OF a house
which was built before the days of eleva-
tors. The patron looked over the artists
portfolio and selected some fifty proofs.
Then came the question of price. The
dealer put it bluntIy, and Daubigny timid-
ly answered that he thought the proofs
were unusually fine and he did not like to
part with them at less than franc apiece.
The story sounds as if it belonged to the
DR.. johnson period Of literature. 1t only
happened nine years ago, and these very
proofs would probably fetch eight or ten
guineas apiece if they were sold at an auc-
tion-room to-day.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
A Plan to Purify Nominations.

David Dudley Field in North A ,a,riclu Review,
suppose 1t were provided that registra-
ton in cities should be made early in 0cto-
Der next before an election; that at the
time of registration the voter should be re-
quested to Dans the person whom he would
nominate for he offices to be filed, and that
the persons thus nominated by a certain
number, say a tenth of the voters regis
tered, should have their ballots printed and
distributed at the expense of the county.
Would not these conditions tend to purity
nominations? The details of a plan, OF
which this is the merest outline, are easy
made. 1t might be provided that no per.
son should be thus nominated except one
who had been previously recommended as
fit for the Office by certain number OF the
voters Of the district
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
HOW GOLD is EXPORTED.
Something of Interest and New to Many
Readers.
Boston Bulletin

Readers.
Boston BulletinJ
Each key contains $50 900 in clear gold.
1t is from the Bank of America at New
York; that mostl. of the gold is shipped
from the city. Foreign steamships sailing
from this city now carry little or no gold,
although the reverse was the case years
ago. The shipments OF gold are not gen.
orally on the banks account. At hrst
glance persons might well suppose that
when the demand arises for gold
to send abroad the shipper would
only have to send in his order for his hun
dreds of thousands to the Sub-Treasury,
where millions of specie are on deposit.
But there are sufficient reasons why this
plan will not work. The Sub-Treasury can
pay out its coin only to creditors OF the
Government. With the Bank of America
the associated banks keep on deposit con-
stantly an enormous sum OF gold, some
times amounting to $40, 900, 600. To the
members of the bank association the Bank
of America issues its own certificates
against these deposits redeemable on de-
mand. &c. when there is occasion for
making a good shipment the coin is pre-
pared for that purpose in the rear office
Of that bank; here it is bagged and Keyed
and made ready for shipment. Kegs in
which gold is packed-specie kegs, as they
are called-are made of extra hard wood.
They must have an extra iron hoop. Specie
is not thrown loosely into keg, nor, upon
the other hand, is il carefully wrapped in
tissue paper and piled up one coin upon
another. The keg serves only as protec-
ton for canvas bsgs, into which the gold is
placed in the ordinary hit and miss fashion
of pennies in mans pocket. Into each
bag goes $1,000 and ten bags fill a keg.
In the interest of security each keg is
treated to what is technically known among
the shippers as the red tapping process. At
each end of the keg, in the projecting rim
Of the slaves above the head are bored tour
holes at equi-distant intervals. A piece Of
REQ tape is run through these holes, cross
ing on the head of the keg, and the ends
finally meet in he center. At the point
of meeting the tape is sealed to the kegs
head by wax bearing the stamp OF the
shipper. Gold crosses the ocean very much
as does every otaer kind of freight, with
out any special looking after. The
average rate of insurance is about
s., 600 on shipment OF ST, 900 900. There
are shippers who do not insure. Hay
ing to ship 81 600 600. they give it in co nal
parts to half a dozen different vessels. 1t
is q strict rule with some firms meyer to
trust more than $3.50 900 at a time on any
one ship. A certain party furnishes all
the kegs for gold and packs them. The
man who does this is monopolist in his
way. Shippers of large amounts always
lose few dollars by abrasion, but not ex-
ceedibg sixteen ounces or million dollar
shipment. The only protection to be found
against abrasion lies in the shipment of
gold in bars instead of coin. Gold bars
are not readily obtained.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
origin OF a Famous Song.


Once over the bar at its entrance from
the gulf the Suwanee River holds its way
with deep current, in places OF forty feet,
far up through the forests of the best hard
pine in the State. 1t is the Penobscot of
Florida. 1t has some good land upon it
where plantations have heretofore been
made, but after awhile generally aban-
donea. The mosquitoes and malaria
guard in the main entrance against
other than lumbermen, anglers and tour
lists. This dark river has, too, Its romance,
as being the place which gave rise to a
melody which, like Home, Sweet Home"
the affection of the heart will never let go.
For it was here that a French family in
the time Of Louis XIV. came over and
settled upon the Suawanee and made q
plantation. After a while the father and
mother and all died save one daughter
who, disheartened and desolate. returned
to France, and there wrote, adopting in
pant that negro dialect which she had been
familiar with on the plantation in her
girlhood, feeling tribute to 1.-THE old folks
at home in their graves in the far-off
country.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Mrs. Darlington and John G. SAKE.

Benjamin I. Shillaber in Boston Post
II you will turn to your files, about AZ,
think, but perhaps later-his contribu-
tons continued for a year or more-you
will find sundry small matters which l do
not think are preserved in his collected
poems that would bear reprinting. These
were "Old Saws New Set" by "Jeems,"
one OF his many pseudonyms, and a series
OF sonnets over the signature of
Axes" all very funny and
OF brilliant construction. He was
very vain OF his ability as a sonnet writer,
and set them at their full valua-
ton. One of these he assured me seriously
was not surpassed by any since the days Of
Sir john Sucking. But his little vanity
was pleasant and his egotism in nowise
offensive to the ear or to good taste. He
was in all respects a charming man person
ally, courteous and courtly gentleman
and a democrat in principle and conduct.
/ knew his intense love OF home, and could
realize his pain as all the tender cords
were broken that bound him to It.
was one winter IN Chicago, and had
bundled up for departure by the midnight
train, in a snowstorm, when as / was waiting
in the Office of the fremont House for q
carriage to take me to the station the door
swung open and SAKE came in, covered with
snow, he having walked the distance, no con-
veyance being at hand. impatient for news
from home. He greeted me very cordially,
but catching glimpse Of letters in the
clerks hand, he turned TO me with smile,
and with hearty shake OF my hand, said
I'm glad to see you, but here are those
rant TO see more. ] LETT him ri hN read.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
The Typewriter Girl.
Boston Transcript

No man is hero to his typewriter girl.
The nature of the unhattering information
which she finds out about him may differ
quite from that which mems Wallets used to
find out, in the time when men had Wallets,
but it is just as fatal to an ideal. The ever
present amanuensis's watchful eye, her ear
that no syllable escapes, take in all his lit
tie weaknesses and jot them down indelibly
in mental notebook. She sees his mind,
which the world takes to be brilliantly and
swiftly constructive, struggling IN. its pal
try workshop, and she knows where he
goes to borrow good many of his tools:
she listens TO his faltering tongue while 1t
painfully evolves utterances after ward to
be bartered to the world under the glitter
ing label extempore; she knows his pro-
crastinations and his petty cowardicss in
dealing with his correspondence, and has
seen HIM shy away again and again, under
pretexts too hollow to deceive her, from
some matter which he could easily face If
he chose to; she has been the victim, now
and then, of his little impatiences. In
short, she sees through the mask of pre-.
tense that deceives the world, and her
knowledge is destructive TO any aureole OF
greatness that her Imagination may have
formed about him before she had the op-
portunity to study him at short range.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Nemesis of an Improvident asIim."
GOLDEN BERYL.
An Expert Description of the New stone
Which is Growing Popular.

An Expert Description of the New stone
Which is Growing Popular.
New York Special
SIS there anything new in gems?'' a we'll
known dealer in precious stones was asked.
''The only thing can think of at this
moment, replied the dealer, sis the golden
beryl, which has recently made its appear
ance in the jewelry market. The dis
tinctive feature of this stone is that it is
native only in this country. 1t has been
pronounced by Professor Dana, Of Yale
College, as different in color from anything
he has ever before seen. Beryl stones have
been discovered in both hemispheres and
include various colOrs, among them the
emerald and aquamarine. Formerly it was
CLASSIFIED as different species from the
emerald, but modem mineralogists classify
the fine green tint as the same species.
s'The beryl has never attained any great
popularity in this country, but in England
it is priced as highly as the topaz in Spain.
a blue beryl suTmounts the glove in the
crown Of Great Britain. In the Hope col
lection, il London. there is a single gem
whice is valued at $500. n specimen of
aquamsrine beryl, found in Russia in 1927,
was valued at 81, 600. Mary beryl gems
have been brought here from Siberia, but
as the stone was not generally known il was
called by some other name-as the sap
phire ana other oriental stones. The beryl
Is always found in deposits of mica, with
granite or gneiss. The golden beryl was
discovered in q mine of this character in
Connecticut. It is found attached to q rock
composed Of quartz, turmaline, spar and
mica. other beryls have been found there,
ppt much was opaque and unfit for gems.
"AHer the golden berpi had been de-
clare 70 be q new mineral 10 was placed in
the hands of a iapidary to be cut into
gem. The result was the production of a
gem which has excited considerable study
and interest IN the diamond trade. Three
shades Of golden colors were obtained. One
was pronounced, and the other a shade less
than this and trihe deeper than the third,
which Is faint. It's hardness is " as COM
pared with the diamond standard OF 10 by
actual test. This quality has been found
sufficient to enable IL to obtain It's bril-
lancy. It's specific gravity is 20 per cent.
less than the diamond, and its density
ranks next TO that most precious of stones.
Its transparency is greater than is charac-
feristic OF other col0red gems, and the play
Of light ii affords Is somewhat similar to
that Of the diamond. The gems are being
nsed in bracelets, brooches. rings and orna-
mental designs for evening wear, and in
psNly eJssy instance are mounted With
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
One of Those Mysteries.
Detroit Free Press.

There was an old fellow turning hand
organ on Grand River avenue yesterday
when a man and his wife stopped for a
moment to hear the music and read the
sign hanging to his neck. The sign read:
Have suffered with rheumatism until
have no use of my hands or arms. Please
help me"
Poor man-give him something" ex.
claimed the wife.
Sure he's all right?'
"Why, of course Doesn't the sign say
he has lost the use of his hands and
arms%'
The husband dropped dime into the
box, and the pair went on, but they had
not proceeded more than half a block
when the wife halted with a sudden Jerk
and exclaimed:
"Whv-why, how could he turn the
crank if he had lost the use of his arms?''
81 dunno" softly replied the man, and
then, while the woman gritted her teett
and clinched her fingers he leaned or
against tree-box and laughed a haw
haH haw until he was tired.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
The Morning After.
Bow Haekley.

1 heard rustic in the hall
Where eTst we stood mid waning tapers;
She met me in her breakfast shawl,
Her crimpS all twisted in curl papers.
The night before she looked a queen
In satin sheen and fluffy laces,
But now Just where the rouge had been
Her powder puff had left its traces
Beneath the blazing chandelier
felt so shy and she so wary;
Ny brain Ieeled with sudden fear
That she might prove winSome fairy,
And vanish in a golden dream
On gaUzy wings, If zsphyrs wooed her,
Away from aught that she might deem
The presence OF a gross intruder.
Alas a tantilizipg shade,
A CHEAT she was, q vain delusion.
Is teauty ever thus TO fade?
My mind had reached this sad conclusion
o face OF nature, always true,
The poet sang. who never ehafed her;
But, lovely women, ye are few
Whose faces lure the morning after.
New Moon,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Huccun 1t ;

Huecum de COWS so early home,
BefO' de milkin' houah2
3ekase dey hyard it thundah, an
Knew las nights milk was souah.
Huccum de she cat in de balm,
Up in de oil hay NOW?
Bekase she's intuhrested some
IN raisin kittens now.
Huccum de darkes' boss to win
Dat great big derby race?
Bakase ne had de stuff in him
An WASH held TO place.
Huccum dat sObah bank casheah
To pack his trunk and get?
BeksSe ne knew dat Montreal
Laid ovah Joliet.
auoeum dat girl so shspely
Dat fas' mates ebery lad?
Bekase she's got the sugah
An knows jes' how to pad.
Huccum dat han some Moth Side girl
To make de public scot?
Bekase her uppah story it
Was les little of.
Hueoum de eyarf shakin' up
An scarin' people so?
Bekase OATS Jet how Belzebub
Remin's Us OBJ below.
Huceum de trees a glisnin' an
De grass ali wet wild dew?
BekaSe why, chile, de atmOsfeah
Had muffin else to do.
Huecum desc metafzcks
A healin' people so?
Don't ask me no mo- questions, chile,
/ tOle 20 1 don't know.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20

vases carved with geometrical figures in
different colors, stone axes, hammers,
pieces OF cloth apparently manufactured
from the fibre OF the yucca; several strings
of beads, sea shells, arrow heads, and an
abundance of fragments of obsidian quartz,
and an incredible quantity of pieces Of
broken pottery. including several with a
blue glazing. Only in one other instance
have We ever heard of this color and
quality of ware having been discovered in
this Territory. and that was at the ancient
pueblo near the Santa Rita in this country,
and it indicates that the Spaniards had
lived in New Mexico before the extinction
of the race who inhabited this ruined aud
buried VILLAGE
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Not Invested.
WAL street News. !

He had been courting her for six months
without coming to the point, when she
turned on him one evening with:
Charles, isn't it awful for a girl like me
to have to worry over how / shall invest
$75,000?n
He thought it was, and three months
later they were married.
CPL invest that $4,000 for you, my
dear, he observed day or two after mar
rlege.
''Oh, was afraid some one might love
me for my money, and gave it to papa I"
was the artless reply
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
AMONG THE POETS.
Ad Simpiicitatem.

Life.
Folly. you're the girl to love;
Always smiling. and as trim
A the hand within your glove,
As the hand you'll give TO him
Who. one dear and dreamy day,
Bending over you, shall say:
'.All my brain j. strangely stirred
Thinking OF your pretty face
Peeping from the folds of lace,
Musing on a whispered word;
ALI my heart is in a whirl."
Folly, you're the girl.
What you know is very slight,
Measured by q scholars books.
Logic. what is wrong or right;
MathematicS. in your looks,
Full of d0uble-curved lines
And OF plus and minus signs;
Language: limited to one,
Rich in fascinating flaws,
Dis0oeying grammaDlaws,
Half in earnest, halt in fun,
Yet with every word a peerl.
Folly, you're the girl.
Books hold but a minor part
OF the lore girl should know;
Better is the constant heart,
Constant now, and ever so;
Giving all its love to make
Life 8 heaven for Loves sake.
This is wisdom OF the wise;
This il is belongs to you.
Shining brightly in those two
Soft and sympathetic eyes.
Giving mans poor heart a twirl.
Folly, you're the girl
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
A Wrecked Life.
lOmaha World

Omaha world
Omaha Wido VI should greatly like to
meet your wife, Mr.. De Sweet.
Mr.. De Sweet have no wife.
II can sympathize with you. You, too,
have lost"
II never was married"
"Ohl You are engaged, though, pre-
sumo, and
Il have never been engaged, madam"
Al, begin to understand. Some sad
T., # the past has left its mark upon
-. ~
~ 49, have never been in love. !
woula not fie myself down to woman II
she were sent down from heaven to me-"
Mercy 4 woman haterl What could
have so pervt rted your nature? WHAT has
happened To-"
IL am GIy goods clerk
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
An Excellent Medicine

my wife and myself were in bad health
for some fifteen years. 1 CHANGED to be
looking over one of Simmons Liver Reguia-
tor Almanacs and saw A. H. Stevens and
Bishop Pierce's names to testimonials.
then obtained some of the Regulator and
can heartily recommend the Liver Regula-
tor to my friends as an excellent medi-
cine T. Z. HARRISON, NJ. D..
Gordonsyille, Va.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20

diamonds. They rank inFalue with stones
other than diamonds. They are being eK-
ported IN limited numbers to London aud
The Continent and have been shown by the
court jewellers. The crystals have been
found in small quantities and it is ques-
ton whether many more will be obtained.
But even as it lie, the deposit is considered
a remarkable one by expert mineral
olOoistsf
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
She Had Him l..

tTOmaha World.
Omaha Husband-Now, 1 think this is
going too far. You promised me you
would countermand your order for that
dress.
Omaha Wife-I wrote to the firm that
very day.
''But here is the dress and the bin or ~
enough to bankrupt me almost. Low
do you explain that?'
II gave you the letter to mail, and l sup
pose YOU forgot il, as usual"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
An Ounce of Prevention.
lOmsha World.

Colorado Man-Do you know that the
thin air of Colorado makes people crazy?
Omaha Mann ever heard of it.
otis so. Passengers on railroad trains
frequently become insane at great eleva-
lions and are as well as ever after the train
gets down the mountain"
"What is the character of the mania
generally ~
always the same. They believe some
body is going to kill them. We can't i'm
agine any way to avoid this trouble either"
"Ill tell you how to manage. Don't let
the passengers know they are in Colorado. "
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
No Wool on THAT Girl.

kissed her hand. She slapped my cheek
The blow came sharp and quick.
Her eyes flashed FIRE. She did not speak.
Ny blood boiled hot and thick.
81 do detest a man. she snapped,
Who'll kiss my fnger-tips;
In love ways one should be more apt
Else what's the use Of Hps?"
Irish Times
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
One of New me.ico's Buried Towns.

A few days ago two prospectors, while
wandering over the foothills east of the
city, accidentally stumble on signs OF pre-
yious habitation buried under heaps of
sand which had been drifted by the winds
of years. Having selected a point at which
to make an excavation, they went to work
with will, and in few hours had reached
the floor of small chamber in the form OF
parallelogrsm. They found the remains Of
ssIsyk human beings, seyerN handsome
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20

An eminent physician acquired dis
tinction by his success in bronchial and
lung affections, or common colds, coughs,
Group. etc. The prescription he used is
now known as DR.. Ransom's Hive Syrup
and Tulu Tor Honey Syrup sold by drug.
gists
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20

From Appleton's Guide: I'VE presume
that there are but very few readers of the
Guide who are acquainted with Ponds Ex-
tract, as regards its extraordinary curative
properties. We have used il in our family
during the past twenty years, and have
realized its wonderful power in relieving
pain. Ii is invaluable for all hemorrhages,
cuts, burns. bruises, catarrh, rheumatism
and kindred pains. 1t is purely vegetable
tsrualIy.n. Be careful to get The gsauiaa
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
His Birthday Party.

Boy-Ain't it time to eat the good
things? =.
Enthusiastically not. You must wait
until your friends come.
Boy-I guess they won't come, cause l
didn't invite them. / thought I'd rather
have il entirely exclusive.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
A c A r D

To all who are suffering from the errors and
indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, early
decay, loss of manhood, etc 1 VIII send recipe
that will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE, This
great remedy was discovered by missionary
in South America. Send a self-addressed en-
velope to Rev. JOSEPH 7. INMAN, Station D., New
York City.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20

New York sun.
THAT man over there has made IS per
cent. OF his fortune from watered stock"
HE looks like q bloated monopolist.
Some railroad magrate. I SUPPOSE"
'No, Hes milk dealeEs.